Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Andrew S. Natsios

Natsios was U.S envoy to Sudan from 2006 to 2009, and the AID representative to Sudan for the years prior--so a witness during the most crucial decade in the country's existence.

The book covers the sweep of Sudan's history, form the civil wars in Darfur through to the recent division of Sudan into two separate counties: Northern Sudan and Southern Sudan. Natsios was invited to attend the ceremonies celebrating the official independence of the Republic of South Sudan on July 9, 2011.

The Darfur crisis has created a unique national advocacy movement in the US which has kept the issue alive in American politics

Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Andrew S. Natsios

Description

For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios provides a timely introduction to the country at this pivotal moment in its history. Focusing on the events of the last 25 years, Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know® sheds light on the origins of the conflict between northern and southern Sudan and the complicated politics of this volatile nation. Natsios gives readers a first-hand view of Sudan's past as well as an honest appraisal of its future. In the wake of South Sudan's
independence, Natsios explores the tensions that remain on both sides. Issues of citizenship, security, oil management, and wealth-sharing all remain unresolved. Human rights issues, particularly surrounding the ongoing violence in Darfur, likewise still clamor for solutions. Informative and accessible, this book introduces readers to the most central issues facing Sudan as it stands on the brink of historic change.What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.

Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Andrew S. Natsios

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Tale of North and South Chapter 2: First and Second Periods of Modern Sudanese History (1821-1898) Chapter 3: The Third Period of Modern Sudan (1898-1956) - The Anglo-Egyptian CondominiumChapter 4: Fourth Period of Modern Sudan (1956-2005) - Independent SudanChapter 5: The Fourth Period Continued - The Second Rebellion and the Turabist StateChapter 6: The Bashir-Turabi Coup of 1989, the Rise and Fall of Hassan al-Turabi, and U.S. Policy towards SudanChapter 7: The three wars of DarfurChapter 8: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, U.S. sanctions on Sudan, John Garang's death, and the implementation challenges of the CPAChapter 9: The Darfur Peace ProcessChapter 10: The fifth period of Sudanese History
(2005-present), Sudan's Future, the Referendum on Southern Independence, the Structure of political and economic power in the North and the South, the Prospects for the Glossary of TermsBibliography

Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Andrew S. Natsios

Author Information

Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2001 to 2005, where he was appointed as Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. He also served as Special Envoy to Sudan from October 2006 to December 2007. He is currently Executive Professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A and M University and a Brent Scowcroft Fellow. Natsios isthe author of two previous books, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Great North Korean Famine.

Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Andrew S. Natsios

From Our Blog

By Andrew S. Natsios
For more than two centuries, Sudan has attracted an unusual level of attention beyond its own borders. This international interest converged in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century as four independent forces met.
First, there is the rebellion in Darfur, which has generated greater international concern than any other recent humanitarian crisis. This long-neglected western region has been intermittently at war since the 1980s and claimed the lives of 300,000 Darfuris in its most recent phase. The rebellion beginning in 2002 led to an ongoing humanitarian emergency, costing Western governments

This week, we announced that South Sudan is the 2011 Place of the Year and quizzed you about how much you know. Now, we present a slideshow of photos provided courtesy of Lucian Perkins and the United States Holocaust Museum.

By Andrew S. Natsios
My first meeting with a Sudanese national was with Dr. John Garang, then commander of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), founded to fight against the Sudanese state'located in the country's north, with its capital in Khartoum'and to advance the rights of the southern part of the country. It was June 1989. By this point, Garang and the SPLA had been in open war against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, then led by Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, for six years.